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People in China are buying cans of fresh air from Canada

People in China are buying cans of fresh air from Canada What started out as a joke straight out of Spaceballs has suddenly taken off as a viable business - a Canadian start-up selling bottled air from the Rocky Mountains has seen a surge of sales from China, with its first shipment selling out in four days. The concept of Vitality Air was dreamt up back in 2013, when a couple of Canadians auctioned off a bag of air for less than 99 cents on eBay. Their second bag sold for US$160. "That’s when we realised there is a market for this," co-founder Moses Lam told The Tele